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Mismatch : why our world no longer fits our bodies /
We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age. Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191513121 0191513121 9780192806833 0192806831 1429470038 9781429470032 1281770027 9781281770028 9786611770020 661177002X 0191551767 9780191551765 9780191578816 0191578819 |